The industry can be a black box of information. But as the state deals with persistent drought, residents and regulators want more answers. Data centers could bring about water shortages in a state where water availability can vary widely.
AI companies want to capture the value created by entire industries. That concentration of wealth and power is society’s greatest risk.
Alex Bores is engulfed in a brutal (and super-expensive) battle over how technology will change work, life, and society.
The history of labor in the region gets shouted down by corporations.
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A last-minute deal headed off a planned strike at Samsung, the Korean electronics giant. The unions have shown that a sustained campaign backed up by the willingness to strike can extract concessions, even from one of the world’s most powerful firms.
“The robots are coming” needn't be understood as heralding the apocalypse. An automated society in which states and worker-owned enterprises use technology to serve public ends while meeting individual needs is entirely consistent with the good life.
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.
The vote suggests ballot measures could become a powerful new tool for grassroots activists seeking to block data center projects.
The members of No Tech For Apartheid (NOTA) advocate for their companies (mainly Google and Amazon) to divest from Israel, ICE, and military contracts.
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